ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

If you're tired of the way #Chromecast TV promotes content, on services you don't even subscribe to, even in "Apps Only" mode, I recommend the Projectivy launcher. It's exactly functional enough: essentially what you wish the native launcher was.

“What is that so-called reality; what is this theory other than a beautiful but primordially human illusion?”

Remembering Escher, who died on this day in 1972, with his wisdom on seeing the vastness of the universe in the very small https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/15/escher-creativity/

Increasingly, it looks like #neurodiversity is a major contributor to evolution. Even the business world is starting to get it: "Neurodiversity as a Competitive Advantage: Why you should embrace it in your workforce" - Harvard Business Review.
I mean, why search for employees who merely *try* 'to think outside the box,' when there's a whole section of society that doesn't need to try - they were born outside the box.
@actuallyautistic
#AutismAcceptanceWeek #ASD #autism #adhd

Three whales

India will make a pitch for interlinking of national archives of G-20 countries to make available scientific papers published by researchers free-of-cost when chief scientific advisors of the multilateral platform meet at Ramnagar in Uttarakhand next week.

Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India Prof Ajay Kumar Sood will chair the G20- Chief Scientific Advisors' Roundtable, the first such initiative taken by the grouping, that will also deliberate on better response to future pandemics, tapping into traditional systems of medicine and setting up of a mechanism for continuous global science and technology policy dialogue.

"The idea is to have a national archive which is effective and have interoperability of the archives," Prof Sood told PTI in an interview.
https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/india-to-pitch-for-open-access-to-research-among-g20-countries-psa-sood-123032400741_1.html

This year, we are apparently growing cats. Again.

80/365 Lord Hanuman #Gaurav #Dhwaj #Khadka #Kathmandu #Nepal

Regulation by bricking (à la Natasha Tusikov), but it’s not your watch or your tractor; it’s your life companion. This may be the most sci-fi-dystopian real life story I’ve encountered. #AI #relationships #sexuality
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-replika-chatbot-ai-companions/

That makes sense.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

"How I Grew To Love the Aesthetics of Rooftop Solar"

Almost 5 year ago, I put panels on my roof in Brooklyn

I worried they'd look ugly, so I set them as far back from the road as possible

But over time, my view changed!

Nowadays I think they look weirdly gorgeous -- a cool cyberpunk mix of 19th-century wood-framed design with 1980s vinyl siding and a 21-century goddamn *power plant*

My essay: https://clivethompson.medium.com/how-i-grew-to-love-the-aesthetics-of-rooftop-solar-eda118df0290

A "friend" link if you're not a Medium subscriber https://clivethompson.medium.com/how-i-grew-to-love-the-aesthetics-of-rooftop-solar-eda118df0290?sk=14bbcf0c2b43a3bd2ea9b044180329cf

#AiArtCommunity #ai #abstract

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OK #teachers I have a fun challenge for you!

I'm working with a 15-year-old who reads and writes at a kindergarten level [insert rant about how we leave Black students behind from the beginning].

He's smart enough that he's faked it until 9th grade and is now having an "oh shit" moment where he doesn't think he can keep going like this.

Any tips for teaching a 15-year-old, very little parental involvement, to read and write from the basics? I have done it with little kids but it's a whole different thing when it's a teen.

(I don't think the mechanisms of teaching are different but the pride and shame around it sure are. Also when you're a Black kid who's been ignored/dismissed/ridiculed by mostly white teachers your whole life, there's a bunch of emotions that come with that.)

#teachermastodon

When we work as groups, sometimes we are much smarter than if we work individually. However, if you've been paying attention to politics lately, you'll know that other times, when we work in group, we are much more stupid.

Sabine Hossenfelder discusses this conundrum and what we can do to avoid collective stupidity.

#CollectiveStupidity #SabineHossenfelder #Science #Psychology #Sociology #Stupidity

https://youtu.be/25kqobiv4ng

This is an amazing chart from the International Monetary Fund. If we stopped subsidizing fossil fuels, we would come very close to meeting our international climate targets. You can support capitalism or the fossil industry, but not both.

It's not just the recent massive drop in life expectancy from the Trump/GOP disastrous anti-vaxx, failed Covid19 response.
It's also how badly the US has been lagging for decades because of guns, poor maternal and child health care, cars, and more guns.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/25/1164819944/live-free-and-die-the-sad-state-of-u-s-life-expectancy?s=09